Wayfinder 2 Menus

Hi Everyone,

First time posting here!

I have a website that has a horizontal main navigation at the top. What I am trying to do is have the main top navigation with drop downs (which works). The second navigation is going to be Dental Service to show in the right red box down by the content. We want to show all the sub menus under Dental Services.

My goal is to have one template to call the different interior page menus for the different sections. I figured doing this would require a "if statement", but I can't get it to work. To be honest I am new at Modx and also new with PHP. I have been trying to work this out for 8hrs. I have also tried searching to see if any one had any examples how to do this. I found BobRay had one article. I tried his example, but was completely lost.

Example of Main Menu:

Dental Services (2)

• Fillings(7)
• Teeth Cleaning(11)

New Patient(3)

• New Patient Form(8)
• Insurance Accepted(9)

Our Practice(4)

• Gallery - Office Art(10)

Directions(6)
Contact Us(5)

Here is the example of a if statement that I was working from seeing at BobRay

<?php
$current_docid = $modx->resource->get('parent');
$output ='';

if($current_docid ==2){
$output .='[[!Wayfinder? &startId=`2` &level=`1` ]]';
}

?>

Here is the website that I am working on. http://www.drloperdentist.com/dental-services.html

You can see that the "Fillings" sub nav is coming in, but if you click on the top main navigation and go to "New Patient" it show that same navition there. At this point it shouldn't show at all.

I also noticed just above the "Fillings" it has this

resource->get('parent'); $output =''; if($current_docid ==2){ $output .='

You could use the UltimateParent snippet to provide the parent ID for the Wayfinder call.


http://modx.com/extras/package/ultimateparent

Thanks Scottwell. It worked! I also wanted to say thank you for replying to my post so quickly. This has really helped me move on with my day to the next build phase.

All I did was install the ultimateparent plugin and added

That was so simple. I'm really loving Modx. When I get more experience with it I am going to go back and figure how to did it with the "if statment." Just for learning experience. [ed. note: [email protected] last edited this post 14 years, 3 months ago.]

Another way to do that is to have a Template Variable (TV) with @INHERIT as its default value, and set the TV value in the parent resource to its own ID. That way all of its children and grandchildren will inherit that value. Then use the TV as the startId value:

Sottwell,

I tried to make a TV like you suggested. I named mine "sub-nav." I then went to the TV "sub-nav" and went under the tab "input" and put in the default "@INHERIT".

For the rest of the TV and I am confused what to do?

For the template it would look like this.

In the parent (top-level) resources, edit the TV and put the ID of that resource. For example, if you have a resource #2, "News", edit that resource and put 2 in the TV. Leave the rest of them alone, as the child resources will inherit that value set in the parent. In other words, all the items in the News folder will inherit the value 2 for the TV. Make sure that the Template Variable (when you created it in the first place) is assigned to all the templates used by the parent resource as well as the children.

The UltimateParent snippet is also a good way. It's just that this is MODx, and there are always several ways to do things.